@lindarosewood - this is a great post! Really appreciate it you sharing your experience. I'm very curious if you listed any 401k amounts on your financial documentation? WAs Mr. O'Brien familiar with how the INIS would view/use the data or WAs he simply validating the numbers you provided? Thanks again! John

@moveclubadmin My equivalent is in local currency converted is about 45k and at that level what you get for your money would be significantly more - 4 bedroom house with yard and swimming pool, 2 cars..private medical..private schooling etc....but in reality with only 5% of the population paying taxes that is a very skewed view of cost of living here. Average household income is the equivalent of 6.5k directly converted in reality

Do yall think it's a bad idea to provide a copy of your credit report? I imagine since it's your American credit folks can't get access to it from there, but it does show all your accounts/previous accounts and all the little Green checkmarks all in a row showing "paid on time"... That looks pretty good!

... in (Galway) WAs really similar to where I grew up in the US and I am madly in love with my fiancee so it seems like a win win to me. About us: I'm a 31 year old machinist (with a side of mechanical Design and engineering) specializing i. The set up, programming and operation of computer controlled machining centers. Her: 35 year old mother of 3 and homemaker, with a drop dead gorgeous smile and the best sense of humor I've ever known. Also a dual UK and Irish citizen. The information I am hoping to finf is related to marriage and immigration. Specifi ...

Hello, Myself my wife and my 2 daughters would like to move over to Ireland from Leicester (UK). We need to WAit at least 3 years due to my youngest daughter finishing her education. I have before marriage, lived and worked in Dublin during the 1990’s and as a family we visit Ireland regularly. We are ideally after living somewhere not in Dublin as we would prefer to live somewhere more rural. I currently work as an Artworker/Project Manager for a Graphic Design Consultancy and have been doing so for over 22 years now at various companies. As I am in m ...

... I need to be close to my family. I am retirement age, still working in Design Build in Sacramento, CA. USA. My partner, is younger, and 4 years away from full Social Security. We would WAnt to move together. Although unmarried, we have been together for 18 years. We WAnt to buy a cottage/house somewhere near to my children and KT's family. I've had the great good fortune to visit Ireland twice. Once nearly 20 years ago where Kev's family accepted me WArmly. Then Jeff and I went 12 years past, again, welcomed into Kevin's family. When first I went to ...

Posted by: Mairead And the new permit (passport stamp and card) is for another year. So there is no application by mail process with forms and a checklist of documents you have to send, like here in the States for Green card renewal applicants? Sorry if this is obvious from you reply, it just seems too good to believe...

So we looking for advice, information on how moving to N. Ireland will, or not, affect our pensions . Also paying taxes, here in US and N. Ireland. Do we choose where to pay? My husband is a dual Irish/American citizen, I'm from N. Ireland with a Green Card. Not sure where to post this, just putting it out there.

@omurchu Joe, good question, but kinda hard to answer 🙂 I've experienced that myself when I tried getting a job back home in Ireland while still living in the US. It WAsn't easy, I can tell you. But...that WAs quite some years ago, so maybe now that the world is more tech-connected, it might be easier. I've heard from people (some Irish citizens) on here over the years that they had a very tough time even getting interviews while being outside Ireland. Some gave up, and did what I think Francis is suggesting. Show up and hit the interview circuit hard. I ca ...

... don't even consider licensing status of others in house!) expect to pay full coverage of 4,000 Euro a month for a lefthand drive --only Axa would give us coverage! Driver's license testing process $600+. Parking prices are very high in the cities, gas high everywhere. Car Issues: Automatics are much more expensive here and hard or impossible to find for many models. Most insurance companies WILL NOT cover lefthand drive cars (see Axa above)--BUT consider learning how to drive a manual with stick on the opposite side, a new car and new driving rules all at ...